Finally: All-Too-Common Flaw #13!  To a startling degree, Pacific Rim has the exact same ending as The Avengers , and I don’t just mean...

All-Too-Common Flaw #12!  And so, after all this, we arrive at the thing I really hated about Pacific Rim …not that this is the only o...

A short one today before the big climax tomorrow... All-Too-Common Flaw #11!  Pacific Rim feels like it’s over 90 minutes in, (which w...

This week we ’ ll have the final four and then a long-promised huge post that is NOT about Pacific Rim, I promise! All-Too-Common Flaw #...

All-Too-Common Flaw #9!  So what’s this movie about? The first answer might be “nothing”, but that couldn’t be more wrong: there are act...

Today you get a Two-Fer: 7 and 8! All-Too-Common Flaw #7: The Villain Need a Goal People don’t go to movies to see the villain get k...

All-Too-Common Flaw #6!  It’s tempting to say that writers aren’t to blame for the crappy quality of movies these days, it’s the direc...

All-Too-Common Flaw #5  I hate watching a movie or TV show knowing in advance that a so-so foreign actor will be attempting an American ac...

A two-fer today!  First we have a new Podcast: I was once again a guest on James Monohan’s Narrative Breakdown podcast , and this time we ...

All-Too-Common Flaw #3! The central conceit of Pacific Rim is that one pilot can’t control a giant robot without getting a nosebleed (...

All-Too-Common Flaw #2! Here’s the fundamental problem with Pacific Rim : It starts with the concept of “robots vs. monsters”, and then ...

Well, folks, I think we’ve hit the mother lode, I watched this movie, and then immediately watched it again, taking notes the whole time, b...

So I thought I would be doing a week’s worth of posts split between Oblivion and Pacific Rim, but, as it turns out, I got one post out of th...

This was supposed to finally be the “Summer of New Ideas”: Instead of endless sequels and reboots, Hollywood actually bought some original...